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The average worker in 2015 wanting to attain the average living standard in 1915 could do so by working just 17 weeks a year, one third of the time. But most people don't choose to do that. They are willing to work hard to harvest the technological bounty that is available to them. Material abundance has never eliminated perceived scarcity.
David Autor
Work
Time
People
Work Hard
Year
Living
Harvest
Willing
Scarcity
One-Third
Perceived
Could
Attain
Weeks
Never
Abundance
Bounty
Most
Material
Just
Wanting
Available
Them
Average
Worker
Working
Hard
Choose
Standard
Technological
Eliminated
Third
It really comes down to the fact that, because I was perceived as a bad guy for leaving the show, I think people were rooting against the movies. That was really unfortunate.
David Caruso
People
Down
Think
Bad
Bad Guy
Perceived
Guy
Fact
Because
Leaving
Were
Unfortunate
Against
Movies
Really
Rooting
Show
Who are we? Whom do we want to become? How do we perceive ourselves? How do we want to be perceived? These questions of identity are often at the core of our own internal struggles. Resolve them, and you are closer to being free.
David Ebershoff
You
Free
Become
Own
Resolve
Our
Ourselves
Perceive
Perceived
Struggles
Identity
How
Questions
Closer
Often
Being
Want
Them
Internal
Who
Whom
Core
What constitutes - where are we when we sleep? What is our sense of reality at that moment? It's, you know, science now suggests to us that what has been perceived as matter for a long time is, in fact, energy.
David Milch
Time
You
Science
Reality
Matter
Long
Long Time
Sense
Energy
Our
Has-Been
Perceived
Fact
Know
Been
Where
In Fact
Us
Moment
Now
Sleep
When we are exposed to a real or perceived threatening situation, powerful things happen in the brain to memorialize aspects of the event, including all manner of associated circumstances like where, when and how it occurred.
David Perlmutter
Situation
Circumstances
Threatening
Perceived
Powerful
Like
How
Occurred
Real
Brain
Where
Happen
Manner
Aspects
Exposed
Including
Event
Things
Things Happen
Associated
When it's between the covers of a book, content is perceived to have literary substance - or more so that it might otherwise.
David Shields
Book
Otherwise
Perceived
More
Between
Content
Covers
Substance
Literary
Might
An assumption underlying almost all comments on interruptions is that they are aggressive, but the line between what's perceived as assertiveness or aggressiveness almost certainly shifts with an interrupter's gender.
Deborah Tannen
Gender
Aggressive
Assumption
Perceived
Almost
Almost All
Between
Underlying
Line
Shifts
Comments
Aggressiveness
Certainly
Assertiveness
Interruptions
As I read the scriptures, it appears that those who receive the Savior's strongest reproach are often those who hold themselves in high esteem because of their wealth, influence, or perceived righteousness.
Dieter F. Uchtdorf
Righteousness
Wealth
Savior
Those
High
Perceived
Strongest
Read
Because
Often
Influence
Hold
Reproach
Esteem
Scriptures
Themselves
Who
Appears
Receive
I'm in this position where I can afford to wait, I'm lucky enough to be financially secure to not have to do anything that's thrown at me. You know the next couple of jobs are going to be pretty crucial in terms of how you're perceived by people. So I'm just waiting.
Dominic Monaghan
Me
You
Waiting
People
Wait
Enough
Secure
Jobs
Financially
Pretty
Perceived
Crucial
Thrown
Know
Terms
Couple
How
Afford
Going
Just
Where
Anything
Next
Lucky
Position
As far as extra dimensions are concerned, very tiny extra dimensions wouldn't be perceived in everyday life, just as atoms aren't: we see many atoms together but we don't see atoms individually.
Edward Witten
Life
Together
Everyday Life
Atoms
Extra
Everyday
Dimensions
See
Perceived
Individually
Concerned
Very
Tiny
Just
As Far As
Far
Many
It can be difficult for players who are perceived to have turned their backs on England, as Wilfried Zaha has found out after deciding to play for Ivory Coast.
Eniola Aluko
Difficult
Backs
Out
Perceived
Ivory
After
Deciding
Turned
Coast
England
Who
Found
Play
Players
All things are perceived in the light of charity, and hence under the aspect of beauty; for beauty is simply reality seen with the eyes of love.
Evelyn Underhill
Love
Eyes
Reality
Charity
Light
Seen
Beauty
All Things
Perceived
Simply
Aspect
Hence
Things
People actually perceived me with being this cat from the Bronx because I'm one of a handful of folks that was actually acting in 'Wild Style'.
Fab Five Freddy
Me
People
Style
Wild
Bronx
Folks
Perceived
Cat
Because
Handful
Being
Acting
Actually
I entered my egg-freezing adventure from a feeling of lack - a lack of fertility, of the right partner, of biological time. But this perceived lack actually produced abundance - of options, time, peace of mind, and microscopic chances of a child.
Faith Salie
Time
Peace
Mind
Feeling
Partner
Peace Of Mind
Entered
Perceived
Adventure
Abundance
Fertility
Child
Options
Microscopic
Lack
Produced
Actually
Right
Biological
Chances
Although I had arrived in total darkness the light of truth at once burst upon my mind and I perceived most clearly that the republicans had overreached themselves.
Francis Bond Head
Truth
Darkness
Light
Mind
Once
Total
Perceived
Had
Clearly
Most
Although
Arrived
Burst
Republicans
Themselves
In the consciousness of the truth he has perceived, man now sees everywhere only the awfulness or the absurdity of existence and loathing seizes him.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Truth
Man
Loathing
Everywhere
Perceived
Only
Sees
He
Absurdity
Him
Existence
Now
Awfulness
Consciousness
One thing everyone seems to agree on is that Republicans face a perceived compassion deficit.
Gary Bauer
Compassion
Face
Everyone
Deficit
One Thing
Perceived
Seems
Republicans
Agree
Thing
My work today is perceived as being classic, but when I first started out, it was a break from the norm. Since then, I have continued to reinvent myself. I don't change my style, but I allow it to evolve.
Giorgio Armani
Work
Today
Myself
Change
First
Style
Out
Evolve
Classic
Perceived
Allow
Since
Continue
Norm
Being
Break
Then
Reinvent
Started
Language controls how you are perceived by others, and in that sense, it is a prison.
Glenn Ligon
You
Language
Prison
Sense
Others
Perceived
How
Controls
My mother helped me identify myself the way the world would identify me. Bloodlines didn't matter as much as how I would be perceived.
Halle Berry
Myself
Me
World
Mother
Matter
Way
Would
Would-Be
Perceived
Identify
How
Much
Helped
There are times when I don't take roles because I don't want to be perceived a certain way.
Harvey Fierstein
Way
Perceived
Take
Because
Times
Roles
Want
Certain
Certain Way
The Hulk is not basically violent, but only reacts violently when a threat is perceived. He has a certain passion for life. He is drawn towards kids and animals and the downtrodden.
Herb Trimpe
Life
Passion
Animals
Kids
Drawn
Threat
Perceived
Only
He
Towards
Hulk
Certain
Basically
Violent
Violently
Write a book you'd like to read. If you wouldn't read it, why would anybody else? Don't write for a perceived audience or market. It may well have vanished by the time your book's ready.
Hilary Mantel
Time
You
Book
Else
Market
Would
Vanished
Perceived
Write
Like
Well
Read
Audience
Ready
May
Anybody
Anybody Else
Your
Why
By The Time
It is women who have traditionally, historically been given non-human roles, perceived as simply the daughters of Eve, perceived as either Madonna or whore. And I think that it is the sexual revolution that plays one part in female emancipation.
Hugh Hefner
Women
Revolution
Think
Emancipation
Sexual
Sexual Revolution
Madonna
Perceived
Given
Daughters
Part
Simply
Female
Been
Historically
Roles
Either
Who
Eve
Plays
I am ever mindful of the legacy of my grandfather, the founder of this Kingdom, who had said to me that he perceived his life as a link in a continuous chain of those who served our nation and that he expected me to be a new and strong link in the same chain.
Hussein of Jordan
Life
Me
Strong
Nation
Mindful
Our
Those
Kingdom
Perceived
Had
He
New
Said
Am
His
Continuous
Link
Legacy
Expected
Same
Grandfather
Who
Chain
Ever
Founder
Served
With young people, I always say, 'You're not doing anyone any favours by withholding your power.' As women, we do that a lot because we are afraid of being misunderstood or perceived as too strong. But the older I'm getting, the more I realise you have to let that go.
Idina Menzel
You
Women
People
Strong
Power
Young
Older
Too
Say
Favours
Perceived
More
Withholding
Because
Always
Misunderstood
Doing
Go
Lot
Any
Getting
Afraid
Being
Anyone
Realise
Young People
Being Misunderstood
Your
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